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Day: March 20, 2020

How Artificial Intelligence is helping in the fight against coronavirus outbreak and how it may prevent future epidemics.

Dauglas Ssempijja

Dr. Sreenivasa Raju Kalidindi, CEO and Medical Director, Apollo Radiology International, India and Group Lead for Radiology Innovation, Apollo Hospitals Group, India made the following statements about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being used to fight against the Coronavirus.  “The current coronavirus epidemic is the first big global test of the power of AI and related technologies. Several countries and…

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Economist, Traders Ask Govt to Protect Businesses in Corona Virus Crisis

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Government needs to devise means of protecting the economy from crumbling as a result of the temporary shutdown of key businesses because of the corona virus. Makerere University Business School-MUBS Economics Lecturer and Policy Analyst, Ramathan Ggoobi says the Coronavirus (COVID-19), which has since been declared a pandemic is economically contagious and has attacked all sectors of the economy at…

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MTN CEO issues a statement about MTN’s support for the fight against Coronavirus.

Dauglas Ssempijja

MTN CEO, Wim Vanhelleputte held an online press conference and issued a statement about MTN’s support for the fight against Coronavirus. He started by applauding the government for the swift response towards the Coronavirus pandemic and assured that MTN is fully committed to supporting in the cause and that they had put some offers. For 30-days, customers can send up…

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Corona-virus: Airtel scraps mobile money charges.

Dauglas Ssempijja

In a statement by the Airtel Uganda Managing Director, VG Somasekhar the move is aimed at supporting efforts to control the spread of the deadly coronavirus pandemic by promoting conversion of physical cash to digital or electronic transactions. “As part of the support, effective March 20, 2020, all on-net person to person transactions will be free for 30 days for…

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MTN reduces Mobile Money Charges on Select Transactions Over COVID-19 (18th March 2020)

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MTN Uganda, announced on Thursday that they would be joining the rest of the country in the fight against the spread of COVID-19 by easing charges on select Mobile money transactions and data bundles. Mobile money transfers below UGX 30,000 will not be taxed for a period of 30 days. This is in a bid to combat the spread of…

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